By Julien Tabet.
Category Archives: Design
Cassie, an ‘ostrich-inspired’ bipedal robot created by Agility Robotics has a playdate with Spot – Boston Dynamics robo-quadruped.
Aren’t they adorable?
This is probably how they’ll cavort when they’ve killed all humans.
Previously: Little Help?
Custom printed tiles by Lithuanian design studio Gyva Grafika.
The tiles feature images of actual windows (some curtained, others featuring the inhabitants peering out) taken in the neighbourhood where this public toilet is located.
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Behold: the the 377-foot Oceanco Tuhura superyacht – inspired by the design of hollowed-out Polynesian canoes but fitted out in luxurious teak, gunmetal, and bronze with a hybrid Azipod CRP propulsion system capable of 18 knots.
Price on application.
Behold: L’Arbre Aux Hérons (The Herons’ Tree) by arts, tourism and culture collective Les Machines De l’île – a steel sculpture, 50m across and 35m high, set to be the ‘largest hanging garden since Babylon’.
Half of the tree’s 22 branches will be traversable on foot by visitors and two mechanical herons at the top will each take 20 passengers on circular flights around the canopy. Though still un travail en cours, the collective is showcasing prototype sections, mockups and sketches at Machine Gallery in Nantes. To wit:
Inspired by the worlds of Jules Verne and Leonardo Da Vinci, it is an unprecedented artistic project…. it will be located along the banks of the Loire River, a few meters away from the house Jules Verne spent his teenage years in and where Jean-Jacques Audubon grew up and drew his first herons.
The attraction is due to open at a disused granite quarry in Brittany in 2022 at a (two-thirds public funded, one-third Kickstarter funded) cost of €35 million.
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A Lamborghini 400GT once owned by Paul McCartney – original aside from a replaced rear suspension, new gearbox and a decades-old wine red respray.
This is the 400GT 2+2 variant – or Fab Four-seater, if you will.
Yours for around €500,000.
This week, the Coen Brothers’ slacker classic The Big Lebowski turns 20 years old.
Twenty.
Which is precisely why you need an interactive map of its filming locations, man.
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This is the Aston Martin Lagonda Vision Concept – step one in the creation of what Aston Martin modestly describes as ‘the world’s first zero emission luxury brand’.
With an all-electric powertrain and 640km range, the vehicle has a massive interior with retractable steering wheel and up-and-out swinging doors for ease of access.
Production is due to start by 2021.
